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Re: Japan's Paper Culture

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Post by mas-ev »

Midori MD Notebook - A6 Grid Paper, Pilot FriXion Ball Slim Biz Gel Pen - 0.38 mm, and sticky notes helped me organize my life the last two years.

I never knew an eraseable pen could be so good. Midori paper is on another level.

I love jetpens. I'm trying out the Hobonichi Techo Weeks as a 2022 journal for more structure. But I'll always have a Midori MD for free flowing thoughts or sketches.

They even have an interesting video on how they organize and pack orders. https://youtu.be/1Bi2Xys-ces

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Post by charlieyu1 »

bamboozled wrote: post #41

It's fun, until you live there, and find yourself forever filling out tens of useless forms and workout that pretty much everything requires a form, whether or not it makes sense. Don't get me wrong, I think the art work, Kanji and calligraphy is awesome, there are many amazing things about the 'paper culture' but, there are many drawbacks, especially in 2021 when the rest of the world has gone digital in so many are…

And the Japanese businesses use Excel so much. They use it to make digital forms, make each cell a square, then fill it with one character per cell.

Re: Japan's Paper Culture

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Post by myle »

I understand the feeling of nostalgia in this thread, but for the actual handwriting and its flexibility I would highly recommend a ePaper tablet like remarkable.

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Post by dan-robertson »

For a slightly contrarian opinion: I just use printer-paper (for a laser printer). It works fine with ballpoint or fountain pens (some notebook papers don’t work well with fountain pens and people think they need special expensive paper). Obviously it doesn’t come in a neat book. I just used plastic document sleeves for the first level of organisation (one could then view more than two pages at once too) and box files for the second, though it wasn’t very necessary. I don’t have much to write and record these days.

I currently use paper for free-form drawings or diagrams for work as photographing a paper drawing is the most efficient process I currently have for getting such diagrams into emails/our wiki.

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Post by Freak_NL »

Ma8ee wrote: post #74
kmonsen wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We had that in Norway too. We don't have that in the US since it's part of the business model of the postal office or USPS to deliver ads in your mail box.

At least in Sweden those stickers only stop the unaddressed leaflets or catalogs they put in the mailbox. If someone printed your name and address on it, the junk will still be delivered.

In the Netherlands too unfortunately, and this is being abused on a small scale by companies with bigger pockets to just purchase an advertising package from the privatised Dutch post (PostNL they are called nowadays), and have them deliver spam with your address and 'to the residents' on it. It's a spam loophole politicians so far have refused to close, and which PostNL defends as being perfectly legal and part of their business offerings. I think I get one of those each month — it's much more expensive to send than normal flyers.

I've started an experiment with these: I just repost them in the postbox and see how many times they come back to me. You can always put them in the postbox with a 'return to sender' on it, but if you leave it as is it seems to come back to you like a paper boomerang. I've had one round-trip now for UberEats; I wonder at which point it'll get taken out of circulation?

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Post by wrp »

sheppard wrote: post #65

For a peek behind the scenes at JetPens (with a slightly algorithmic bent): https://youtu.be/1Bi2Xys-ces Disclaimer: I work there.

I have followed JetPens since they started in someone's dorm room. Just how many people work there now?

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Post by samatman »

ThePhysicist wrote: post #88

They also manufacture some great fountain pens. I recently got a Pilot Capless (Vanishing Point) and really like it after writing on Lamy pens for years.

My black Pilot Vanishing Point, from Itoya in Ginza, is the crown of my collection. Great story and fantastic pen, although for sentiment it can't compare to the Montblanc my father gave me for matriculating from university.

Fun timing to run into this article, I have the pen and fresh ink sitting next to the converter as a nice project to work on during the intercalary week.

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